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Maybe divorce ISN’T so probable after a brain injury
Brainline.org just seems to be on fire lately (May 2015) and this article caught my eye. Two things: I am posting it with little comment AND I must admit that I was wrong when I referred to dismal stats on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, Community, disharmony, divorce, emotions, Isolation, marriage, stability
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Killing your sleep to stay connected
Installing an app that adjusts the color temperature of the screen to approximate the light at the time of day, or more importantly, night. Continue reading
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Tagged adjusting, blue light, Cognitive Damage, Community, cortisol, disharmony, dreams, EEG, emotions, Isolation, melatonin, sleep disturbance, sleep tracker
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The opposite of losing your life connections
Here’s a blog post from Brainline.org about what we do naturally when our social network in real life falls apart. If your brain injury hasn’t caused too much debilitation you find that your world just isn’t what it used to … Continue reading
If You’ve Seen One Brain Injury
Yeah, I’ll bet I know what most of you were thinking the next words would be. When a fellow survivor said that and paused I must have given away what I was thinking based on the twinkle in her eye. That sarcastic saying … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphasia, articulate, Cognitive Damage, Community, Isolation, misunderstood, strangers
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Like It or Not, That Day Will Come Around Each Year
The other day I was listening to a friend deliberate on what to call the day her injury struck. Something about the notion of calling it the anniversary was bothering her. She was wondering if it was something to celebrate. Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, Community, forgive, honest mistakes, memory, Rebuilding, Recovery, restoration
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TBI Support Communities on the Web
It’s been a while since I have posted anything with regularity and I decided to speak to that in this post. I stopped writing too much about being a TBI survivor on my own Facebook wall because, well, those details … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, adjusting, Community, random, Recovery, TBI Support
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